Maggie Blackbird

Romancing Canada's Indigenous People

I discovered a new author, Kathleen O’Neal Gear, a former state historian and archeologist, who writes historical romance about North America’s Indigenous people.  Her prose is rich in detail and her descriptions transport you back in time.  Currently, I’m reading This Widowed Land. Blurb:  Lovely Andiora is a Huron Indian in seventeenth-century North America. A …

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I read a lot of historical romance.  One problem I’ve encountered is finding books starring Indigenous heroines.  Continent doesn’t matter.  I’m game for North America, South America, Africa, Australia, etc.  After digging and digging, I came across a few authors who write aboriginal women in starring roles. Vella Munn:  I featured this author in another …

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